Manchester’s Changing Skyline
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Studio Egret West and Oval Real Estate are happy to announce that proposals for Albert Bridge House in Manchester have recieved planning approval.
Two octagonal residential towers, 49 storeys and 37 storeys in height. A commercial building, anchors the scheme, and completes the composition of octagonal forms. Lower in height. (18 storeys)
studioegretwest.com
Two octagonal residential towers, 49 storeys and 37 storeys in height. A commercial building, anchors the scheme, and completes the composition of octagonal forms. Lower in height. (18 storeys)
Planning Approval for Albert Bridge House
studioegretwest.com
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urban genie
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Whether you like all these new high rises or not surely nobody can want to see this happen
Completely unecessary and for me cultural vandalism
Completely unecessary and for me cultural vandalism
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That's disgusting. This has happened a few times now. I wonder who the developer is.
Same was due to happen next to the Britons’ Protection… Apex Tower.
And is happening next to the Sir Ralph Abercromby with Neville’s tower.
You fear for these pubs with the way the noise complaints going from new city centre residents and get upheld meaning clubs and pubs get shut down.
Even if they remained, the beer garden at the Britons would be ruined with a tower like that looming over it.
Lower Turks Head also
Stockton Heath Blue
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Shudehill? If so, The Glassworks (Salboy) is struggling. It's being marketed as offices more than half empty, with no takers. Originally applied for consent as a hotel - rejected. No doubt they will go back to planners for a change of use consent if they don't get any lettings soon.
Yeah Shudehill it's an eyesore, a real shame it got planning permission. Like most things nowadays know one gives a flying fook.
^Glassworks is a nice enough small tower but not where it’s been situated.
It doesn’t fit in with anything around it, lurks over the Lower Turk’s Head and Scuttlers making those interesting buildings seem unimportant.
There’s too much of this in Mcr city centre.
Replacing old buildings in areas like this should be with an ‘old town’ sort of feel where buildings compliment each other. Build new but in older style. The Town Hall, for example, was built in 1877 but is neo-gothic and looks like it was built in the 13th century. Similarly, mock-Tudor buildings look like they may have been built in 1580 but were probably built in the 1880s. Not everything new has to be steel and glass. What was the last new build that was built in an older era style?
Build areas up like a ‘new town’ in specific area where there’s some consistency and homogeneity.
It doesn’t fit in with anything around it, lurks over the Lower Turk’s Head and Scuttlers making those interesting buildings seem unimportant.
There’s too much of this in Mcr city centre.
Replacing old buildings in areas like this should be with an ‘old town’ sort of feel where buildings compliment each other. Build new but in older style. The Town Hall, for example, was built in 1877 but is neo-gothic and looks like it was built in the 13th century. Similarly, mock-Tudor buildings look like they may have been built in 1580 but were probably built in the 1880s. Not everything new has to be steel and glass. What was the last new build that was built in an older era style?
Build areas up like a ‘new town’ in specific area where there’s some consistency and homogeneity.
Stockton Heath Blue
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100% agree. Glassworks looks like it's just been dropped there. It's so at odds with the surrounding buildings.